Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: add check for kzalloc

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed May 18 2022 - 00:55:18 EST


On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:09:57AM +0800, Jiasheng Jiang wrote:
> As kzalloc may return null pointer, it should be better to
> check the return value in order to avoid dereference of
> null pointer.
> Moreover, the "padapter->xmitpriv.hwxmits" should also be
> checked and return _FAIL if it is null.
>
> Fixes: 15865124feed ("staging: r8188eu: introduce new core dir for RTL8188eu driver")
> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
> index c2a550e7250e..f47d2bf71a45 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
> @@ -179,6 +179,11 @@ s32 _rtw_init_xmit_priv(struct xmit_priv *pxmitpriv, struct adapter *padapter)
> pxmitpriv->free_xmit_extbuf_cnt = num_xmit_extbuf;
>
> rtw_alloc_hwxmits(padapter);
> + if (!padapter->xmitpriv.hwxmits) {
> + res = _FAIL;
> + goto exit;
> + }

Please make rtw_alloc_hwxmits() return -ENOMEM on failure and zero on
success.

regards,
dan carpenter